Archive for October 2020
Light pollution makes disease-carrying mosquitoes active even at night
"This is potentially a very valid problem that shouldn't be overlooked," says one scientist.
Even babies consume large amounts of microplastics
In all, infants consume as many as 1.6 million polypropylene microplastic particles on average every single day.
A marine protected area is long overdue to save the Antarctic’s fragile ecosystem
Just 5% of the Southern Ocean is protected, leaving biodiversity hotspots exposed to threats from human activity.
New Arctic permafrost clues lie at the bottom of the sea
Emissions released from thawing Arctic Ocean permafrost mean there is even less room for GHG emissions if we're to meet global warming targets.
Global warming is detectable even at the ocean floor
Everywhere they looked the scientists observed a warming trend of 0.02 to 0.04 Celsius between 2009 and 2019.
Wasting waste: we must do better on recycling plastic
Current recycling commitments will only reduce annual plastic flows to the ocean by 7%. That's depressingly low.